WE ARE GOING TO BLAME CARTOONS NOW????? IF SO, I KNOW OF A “ROADRUNNER” and a “MEXICAN MOUSE” WREAKING HAVOC ON THE HIGHWAYS!!! https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/south-park-charlie-kirk-maga-1236368149/ “JB”- I really don’t do a swan dive into politics often, as it is very much the reason I am here as an Ex-Pat. But the past few days makes it hard…
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/gangs-haiti-panama-united-nations-kenya-b2819717.html The United States and Panama are urging the U.N. Security Council to authorize a 5,550-member force with the power to detain gang members in Haiti to help stop the escalating violence The United States and Panama are urging the U.N. Security Council to authorize a 5,550-member force with the power to detain gang members in Haiti to help…
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/europe/china-sco-summit-parade-european-security-intl This week, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a clear message for Ukraine and its European allies: Moscow can keep going, because we have powerful friends. The Russian leader stood shoulder to shoulder at various events in China with the men who have enabled him to wage his war on Ukraine for as long and as ferociously…
https://newsroompanama.com/2025/09/04/maduro-with-unwavering-faith-in-victory-in-the-face-of-the-us-onslaught/ Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro asserted that his country will remain “standing” and with “unwavering faith in victory” in the face of what he described as an “attack” by the United States, which is carrying out a military deployment in the Caribbean Sea to, according to Washington, combat drug trafficking. This land belongs to the Venezuelan…
https://newsroompanama.com/2025/09/04/national-police-receive-vehicles-to-strengthen-security-in-tourist-areas/ The National Police’s Special Environmental, Rural, and Tourism Police Service (SEPART) received 19 vehicles through a cooperation agreement signed between the Tourism Authority and the Ministry of Public Security to strengthen security in areas of interest to both nationals and tourists. The deputy director general of the National Police, Jorge Domínguez, said that…
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/03/protests-in-spain-mexico-target-travelers-as-overtourism-anger-grows.html Are “We” not far behind?? Nan Palmero was at a rehearsal dinner in Mexico City’s trendy Roma Norte neighborhood, ahead of a wedding of two American friends, when he heard a “rumbling” outside. From the restaurant’s second story, Palmero described seeing a large group of people moving through the streets, some holding placards, shouting…
OP ED” “JB“- Iv’e made my feelings known on this in previous post. My career was within (CBP) in US, so if you don’t agree, you can GFY and IDGAF. But this is such a bad and inhumane look. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/panama-migrants-trump-immigration If Salana is sent back to Afghanistan, she will be stoned to death. Of that,…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/31/panama-canal-port-lawsuit-us-china Panama’s comptroller general has lodged two cases with the country’s supreme court against the owners of two ports at the centre of a geopolitical struggle between the US and China, in a move likely to be seen as a victory for Donald Trump in his attempt to rid the Panama canal of Chinese influence….
Panamanian opposition figures accused the US of carrying out a “camouflaged invasion” after Pete Hegseth said Washington would expand its military presence in Panama to secure the canal from Chinese influence. The reported arrangements for former US bases and preferential canal treatment have fueled claims that the government is compromising sovereignty. The dispute has deepened…
Global increase in photosynthesis on land while it falls in the oceans https://www.prensa.com/mundo/aumento-global-de-la-fotosintesis-en-tierra-mientras-cae-en-los-oceanos/ Land plants drove an increase in global photosynthesis between 2003 and 2021, partly offset by a slight decline in seaweed. The findings, from a study published in Nature Climate Change , could inform assessments of planetary health, improve ecosystem management, and guide climate change…
