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Another 296 pages of Hillary Clinton’s emails were released Tuesday — exposing key Clinton aides doing favors for billionaires and, on one occasion, leaving the then-secretary of state’s daily schedule in an unlocked hotel room. The documents were released by Judicial Watch, which is suing to recover Clinton’s emails under Freedom of Information Act laws. In an April 2009 email to Clinton’s State Department aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, President Clinton’s former body man, Doug Band, the founder of corporate consultant Teneo, urgently asked them to set up a meeting with an ambassador for a major donor to the...

21st Century SocialismThe attempt to destroy democracy in Latin America.  The Obama administration started out on the wrong foot in world affairs. It used techniques better suited for domestic political campaigns — popularity contests — in its foreign policy. In our own hemisphere, the result was confusion for our allies and our enemies alike. The overriding objective of U.S. policy — in Latin America and elsewhere — should be to advance U.S. national interests, not to curry favor with foreign leaders. If we can be liked while advancing our interests, so much the better. But when we try to befriend...

In an effort to push the global warming agenda forward, Mr. Ki-Moon and Queen Elizabeth were in attendance in Trinidad and Tobago at a Climate Change / Global Warming event. Apparently sensing the changing tide (pun intended) there was a sense of urgency much like closing a deal on a longterm sale that you feel slipping from you fingers.

Charles said that he was able to briefly discuss the issue of climate change with both President George Maxwell Richards and Prime Minister Patrick Manning on Tuesday. "Unfathomably however, there still seem to be some climbing skeptics, those who view the case of rapid action to counter climate change is overstated or indeed completely invented," he added. "If I may speak plainly among friends, this is sheer madness. The scientific facts are as plain as they are alarming. Worryingly in the last few months we have learnt that the North Polar ice cap is melting so fast that some scientists...

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario Several members of a suspected terrorist ring prayed daily at a storefront mosque in a middle-class city west of Toronto but never spoke of hurting others, one of their prayer leaders said. "I will say that they were steadfast, religious people. There's no doubt about it. But here we always preach peace and moderation," Qamrul Khanson, an imam at the one-room Al-Rahman Islamic Center for Islamic Education, said Sunday. The 40-50 Muslim families who worship at the mosque were astonished, he said, to learn that police had arrested 12 adults, ages 19 to 43, and five suspects younger...

Could it be that Washington is trying to intimidate Venezuela with large-scale naval maneuvers in the Caribbean Sea? According to this article from Venezuela's Cadena Global, President Hugo Chavez said, 'We aren't afraid of the Paper Empire!,' and 'We are preparing ourselves' for America's attempt to 'enslave us.' During his Sunday "Hello President [Alo Presidente]" program, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez maintained that the purpose of the American military presence in the Caribbean is to "intimidate" his Government, and he warned that the "Bolivarian Revolution isn't afraid of the Empire." Chavez also announced that he would push forward a legal reform...

Four Trinidadians have said US authorities questioned them about their contact with a suspected al-Qaeda operative after he visited T&T in 2001. Adnan G El Shukrijumah was named when US attorney general John Ashcroft warned of intelligence showing al-Qaeda plans for an attack against the United States. Large photos of El Shukrijumah and six others were displayed at a news conference in Washington on Wednesday. The Saudi native visited Trinidad for six days in May 2001 and stayed with Zainool Ali, who lives in Chaguanas. Ali and three others were questioned by US authorities in late 2003, they told AP....

The Sacred Heart Traditional Choir yesterday launched its first CD, entitled Resurexit, at the Sacred Heart Church. The launch was led by Fr Allan Ventor and blessing of the CD was performed by Archbishop Tsherrig. Molly Guy, who is the Choir’s musical director and co-producer of the CD along with Simeon L Sandiford, presented copies of the CD to Ventor and Tsherrig. The choir, which has been in existence for over 50 years, is one of the few church choirs which maintain the tradition of singing the traditional Latin Mass and other Latin polyphonic hymns. Fittingly, the Latin title meaning...

http://www.trinidadexpress.com Date: November 02, 2003 Category: News Killing fields of T&TMurder rate at 14.7 per 100,000 people: projected to reach 19.2 by year’s end The following crime figures help place Trinidad and Tobago’s crime problem in context. Based on a per capita murder rate for every 100,000 people Venezuela (population—24.6 million) has a rate of about 13.2; Mexico (population —104.9 million) has a rate of 13; Lebanon (population—3.7 million) has a rate of 13 and Sri Lanka (population—19.7 million) has a rate of 12 per 100,000.  New York, with a population of eight million, has a per capita rate of...

Trinidad seeks leverage on locating HQ for free trade zone By Doreen Hemlock Business Writer October 30, 2003 In the growing debate over a Free Trade Area of the Americas pact, the small Caribbean nation of Trinidad-Tobago added a new issue Wednesday: how to decide where to put the headquarters. A Trinidad-Tobago official called for a vote by all 34 FTAA nations on a site, a method that would help it reel in support offered by 13 fellow Caribbean Community nations to host the prestigious office in the island's capital, Port-of-Spain. Miami and other rival cities in the Americas had...

Archbishop Gilbert wants T&T to march against abortion By SATEESH MAHARAJ Roman Catholic Archbishop Edward Gilbert has called on the people of this country to vote against the “culture of death” and join in tomorrow’s march against abortion. In a statement distributed yesterday at a news conference called by members of the Emmanuel Community at their Woodbrook headquarters, Gilbert said: “We believe pro-life legislation is a positive alternative based on spiritual, philosophical and medical truth, to the culture of death legislation that is being proposed by anti-life agencies.” He added: “Such legislation is detrimental to the quality of life in...