Spain steps into Panama Canal row

The Spanish government says it is in talks with Panama and Sacyr, the builder at the heart of a row over a contract to expand the global shipping hub.



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Alternative to ObamaCare

The ideal: Health insurance should be individual, portable across jobs, states and providers; lifelong and guaranteed-renewable, meaning you have the right to continue with no unexpected increase in premiums if you get sick. Insurance should protect wealth against large, unforeseen, necessary expenses, rather than be a wildly inefficient payment plan for routine expenses. Getting there: […]



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New ObamaCare Taxes

The new taxes on one customer’s bill added up to $23.14 a month, or $277.68 annually, according to Kaiser Health News. It boosted the monthly premium from $322.26 to $345.40 for that individual. The new taxes and fees include a 2 percent levy on every health plan, which is expected to net about $8 billion for […]



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CUBA: 55 years of communist terror, erased from history - RenewAmerica

CUBA: 55 years of communist terror, erased from history RenewAmerica January 1 is a very dark day for those of us who are living in exile, having left Cuba, the Communist island prison. It is also a dark day in modern history, as the international community continues to ignore 55 years of murder and oppression committed ...

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Top 10 events that shook Russian economy in 2013 - RT

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Top 10 events that shook Russian economy in 2013 RT Since the deal acquisition, the oil-magnate has been picking up many independent Russian producers as well as ramping up crude and LNG ventures in Vietnam, China, Venezuela. Russian oil output, the largest in the world, reached 10.61 barrels per day in ...

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Brazil's (non-working?) year ahead

Tongue-in-cheek 2014 calendar hits home



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The specter of Pancho Villa drove UTEP professor to investigate sex ... - Borderzine

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The specter of Pancho Villa drove UTEP professor to investigate sex ... Borderzine EL PASO — To most people Pancho Villa is a legendary character from Mexican history, but to Ruth McDonald, a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, Villa is a real man who hurt her family when he kidnapped her great aunt in the early 1900s ...

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