The red figure cited below - 7,215,636,000 - is from the UNC World Population Clock,
the most believable clock on the net, which is not connected to me or to this site.

World population May 15, 2012
7 billion 215 million 636 thousand

  Any date : A relentless cover-up by embedded media loyal to their rich, growth loving owners may be confusing you, but overgrowth of population and the human encampment are already beyond the "tipping point" and still exploding, and the result is not just global warming. The eco-system is NOW collapsing. But since continued profit flow depends on continued growth, since the rich insiders who effectively run the world don't want anyone to think about stopping growth, no matter what it does to the world we live in, the media they own continue to cover up the truth about the ongoing population explosion and its consequences. (Keep Reading)



news analyst, media critic, and philosopher
on Cuba, Latin America and the world

editorofiamor@hotmail.com
Since March 4, 2004
iammyownreporter.com
In April 2012, IAmMyOwnReporter.com & NotTalkRadio.com became one site with two aims:
to expose and correct official lies and omissions & to provide the realistic vision needed to do that,
using long sentences and big words (like philosophical and intellectual) without apology -Glen Roberts
MOTIVES          QUALIFICATIONS          INTELLECTUAL STANCE

Unspinning Official Stories

On-line third party fizzles,
unable to find leaders,
because its only agenda
is democratic incoherence

  15 May 2012: The Regressive Times story about the "faltering" today of a budding nerd-driven (technically whizzy but philosophically blank) third party nominating convention the Times has never interrupted their own election to report before today, informs us that there was plenty of money but that the party was unable to nominate a candidate.
    The Times settles on the absence of a "skilled candidate" like Ross Perot (I didn't make that up) as the problem but, through 40 inches of useless copy, never once points out the real problem - the absence of any agenda to unite or even justify the mob. This editorial purity simply explains why the Times, likes the silly party enough to write it up. Parties with continued

  Any American can go to
 Cuba as his own reporter
   This document argues that any American, even under the so-called "Cuban travel ban," has the existential and constitutional right to go to Cuba as his own reporter without anyone's permission except possibly Cuba's. Read Document.

 Cubans choose socialism
    On a 6-week 2002 tour of Cuba, I surveyed 100 random Cubans about a petition reportedly signed by 98% of eligible voters to lock socialism into their constitution after George Bush accused Cuba of bio-terrorism involvement and Jimmy Carter refuted the lie from Cuba but also urged Cubans to adopt the American way. See Survey Intro, Interviews 1-17 Havana, 18-48 Baracoa, 49-73 on the road, 74-89 Cienfuegos, 90-100 Havana.

Using 20/20 Brain Vision

    There's no such thing as "too idealistic." Ideal means just right. To expect this human race, with its propensity for denial and chaos, to achieve an ideal may be naive. But to reject the concept of an ideal, to fail to define it and use it as a yardstick by which to measure what you're settling for IS stupid.
    My ideal world would be a one-world communist atheist state with a population of way less than 250 million people all speaking the same language and living in harmony with the eco-system in neatly defined civilized enclaves leaving most of the world in nature's domain.
    Uh-oh! What am I saying?
    I recall a 2-pic "Far Side" cartoon, first showing a man scolding his dog, then showing what the dog heard, "Ya-da-da, ya-da-da, ya-da-da, Rover, ya-da-da, ya-da-da, Rover, Ya-da-da-da."
    I'm afraid many Americans will read the top two paragraphs as, "Ya-da-da, ya-da-da, ya-da-da, communist, ya- (What?) atheist? ya-da-da, ya-da-da, ya-da-da-da." (cont'd but not yet)

"Cuban Notebooks"
by Glen Roberts
 Watch me write this book
slowly

This book, based on 7 visits to Cuba so far, is being published here for the first time as it is written. The first 10 chapters posted have been shuffled, combined, split and altered. The Chapter 4 I'm now writing will be followed by a new Chapter 5,6,7, and 8, and the current 5,6,7,8,9, and 10 will become 9,10,11,12,13, and 14. After my 8th trip to Cuba, if I live that long, a new Chapter 15 will finally end the book. Read existing chapters by clicking the numbers below.


Cienfuegos high school students pack the gazebo at Parque Marti

MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT CUBA: For a review and dismissal of just a few common misconceptions about Cuba, click HERE.

 FEB. '10: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE HAVANA TIMES - CLICK

JAN. '08: A FRIENDLY CRITIQUE OF PRESS FREEDOM IN CUBA - CLICK
ENERO '08: UNA CRITICA AMISTOSA SOBRE PRENSA LIBRE EN CUBA - CLICK

2007 UPDATES FROM CUBA: For a look at Cuba with Fidel on the bench posted from the island in January and February 2007, click HERE.

2005: BIRDS & BRUJAS IN ENCHANTED CATEMACO click HERE.

THREE APRIL '05 LETTERS FROM CUBA: Self-syndicated and offered
on the dates indicated to various U.S. media I knew wouldn't print them.
    "Human Rights in Cuba, April 14 from Havana," click HERE.
    "Viva y Habla Fidel!, April 22 from Cienfuegos," click HERE.
    "Elections in Cuba, April 29 from Havana," click HERE.

2004: SOUTH AMERICA COMPARED TO CUBA: In the summer and fall of '04, the author toured eight South American countries to compare the "emerging western style free enterprise democracies" to Cuba, because, as members of the OAS and the UN, these countries are regularly armtwisted into censuring Cuba as the only country in the hemisphere still not "free." In three extensive documents listed below, the author confirms that, logically, it should be Cuba that censures the other countries, since only Cuba is free of a significant list of oppressive attributes found everywhere else, as these documents attest.
    "From Maracaibo," click HERE.
    "From the Andes," click HERE.
    "From the Cone" (includes South America Summary), click HERE.

LINKS:

Current, relevant daily & weekly reports easily accessed
through a tightly focused selection of reliable news links
Circles Robinson Online
Havana Times.org
Narco News Bulletin
The National Cuban Organization: 		Cuba Headlines
Green Left Weekly
ACN Cuban News Agency
Venezuelanalysis.com 		Granma International
Trabajadores
Latin American Newspapers
www.chavezcode.com

Other Informational Links


Definitions and explanations of terms and concepts
 

Notes To Nowhere, No One, No Avail
 (Dedicated ultimately to the illiterate flames of some random dump)

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