Haiti Chery

GDP Measures the Wealth of Bankers

Dady Chery — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:24:30 +0000

By Dady Chery, News Junkie Post | Haiti Chery. Libya's gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 108 percent in 2012. By contrast, the growths of Japan and other developed countries, as measured by their GDP, have stagnated at values below three percent and sometimes negative. If you are shaking your head, thinking there must be a mistake in the World Bank’s computations, think again.

‘Tezen Nan Dlo’: An Ecological Folk Tale from Haiti

Dady Chery — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:30:19 +0000

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | News Junkie Post. "A long time ago, in a thatched house snuggled in a valley between the flamboyant-covered hills of Haiti, there lived a girl whose greatest ambition was to bring home the cleanest water in all the world...." (English | Portuguese)

(Français) Le génie de Chavez: Par Fidel Castro

Dady Chery — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:43:55 +0000

Par Fidel Castro | Cuba Debate, Haiti Chery. "Moi qui ai abordé bien souvent des problèmes difficiles dans de longs discours, en m’efforçant toujours au maximum de bien faire comprendre mes idées, j’ai du mal à m’expliquer comment ce militaire d’origine modeste, mais à l’esprit agile et au talent sans pareil, a été capable d’un tel déploiement d’éloquence sans perdre la voix ni ses forces. La politique est pour moi le combat prolongé et résolu des idées.... Si cette science ou cet art ou comme on veut l’appeler servait au bien de l’humanité, elle mériterait du respect, celui-là même que méritent ceux qui apprennent aux autres l’habitude de penser." (Français | Espagnol)

Love’s Celebration Is Worth Life’s Struggles

Dady Chery — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:35:55 +0000

By Dady Chery, News Junkie Post | Haiti Chery. "'Why fight?' Some ask, when we have probably passed the tipping point in climate change.... One might as well ask: Why live the best lives we can, although we will all die?.... But on accepting the human condition, we also discover that there is pleasure in cherishing what we cannot possess."

How Might We Honor Aaron Swartz? An Interview

Dady Chery — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:11:37 +0000

Interview of Carlos Gomez With Dady Chery, News Junkie Post | Haiti Chery. "SOPA/PIPA was meant to protect rights that corporations should not be allowed to have. Copyright laws were developed to protect the livelihood of authors -- not the corporations that buy the right to an author’s work.... There is no sense to a copyright outliving its author, since no amount of incentive would entice that author to further efforts." - C. Gomez

Aaron Swartz’ s Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto

Dady Chery — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:38:51 +0000

By Aaron Swartz | Haiti Chery. "The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations...."

Haiti: Wrecking Ball Capitalism in Real Time

Dady Chery — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:30:04 +0000

By Dady Chery, News Junkie Post | Haiti Chery. How does one drag a people with a sense of enough into the capitalist enterprise? In Haiti, this process is exposed in all its hideousness as it happens in real time.

Dying By Degrees From Climate Change

Dady Chery — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:39:55 +0000

By Dady Chery, News Junkie Post | Haiti Chery. The End Age for humanity is not a date known to man, but a point of no return from climate change. Are we there now, as the Hopi and Mayans have predicted? Is there time left to us and, if so, how long?

USAID: Dictator’s Little Helper

Dady Chery — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 08:30:58 +0000

By Dady Chery, News Junkie Post | Haiti Chery. USAID's goals were originally to diminish the threat of communism and open new markets for the US; these have expanded to include: developing “countries’ policies and institutions” and even “rebuilding government.”

Climate Change: Bopha (Pablo) Hits Philippines’ South as Category 5 Typhoon

Dady Chery — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:30:23 +0000

By Staff (ELR), GMA News | YouTube. Category 5 Typhoon Bopha made landfall in the southern Philippines' Mindanao area -- a region seldom affected by cyclones -- with sustained winds of about 160 mph early on Tuesday December 4. The storm, locally called Pablo, has killed dozens, stranded thousands, and displaced tens of thousands of people.

(Français) Un poème par René Depestre: ‘La révolution sans fétiches’

Dady Chery — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:30:05 +0000

Par René Depestre, du receuil En Etat de Poésie (Les Editeurs Réunis Francais, Paris, 1980) | Haiti Chery. Il y a ceux qui crient sur tous les toits / Vive la Révolution! / derrière ce cri se cache parfois le voeu / secret que la révolution se casse une jambe....

Bees’ Disappearing Act

Dady Chery — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:30:02 +0000

By Dady Chery, News Junkie Post | Haiti Chery. Scientists are calling a rapid decline of the bees "colony collapse disorder", or CCD; however, a more appropriate name would be CCC, for colony collapse catastrophe because this entails the disappearance of a hive’s 30,000 or so individuals within days and without any trace of their bodies.