­por Nohelia González

Previously, Nicaraguans possessing dual-citizenship, i.e., who had become citizens in other countries (say the United States), need only provide the Directorate of Immigration (headquartered in Managua) with a valid U.S. passport and Visa to visit and exist their former homeland. There was no time limit.

However, as of Sept 6, 2011 that changed because the Directorate now requires these Nicaraguans to purchase a Nicaraguan passport if they stay more than 90 days.

This understandable does not set well with Nicaraguans who visit the country for long periods of time as they feel it is just a way for the Nicaraguan government to make money off them.

The decision titled Article 62 of the General Law of Immigration was announced at a press conference last August.

In this sense, Nicaraguans must pay as stipulated in the Constitution and laws of the country, so if they do so by entering the travel document country of nationality obtained “may leave the country with the same document you typed in, provided that this departure made within 90 days is given at the time of entry. If their stay exceeds 90 days, must pass a national law “.

­Nicaraguans who have obtained another nationality and they do enter the country with travel document country of nationality obtained, may leave the country with the same document that was admitted, provided that he made his exit in the 90 days that it was gives the time of entry. If their stay exceeds 90 days, must pass a national law.

Law 761, General Law of Immigration, has as its foundation respect for human rights and the restoration of rights promoted by the Government of National Unity and Reconciliation.

by Rebecca Greenfield

“Imagine that President Obama could order the arrest of anyone who broke a promise on the Internet.” That’s what The Wall Street Journal’s Orin Kerr thinks the latest cyber-security legislation will lead to: An assault on checking Facebook at work. Today the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on proposed changes to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which would seek tougher sentences for digital offenses. As more of the world moves online, so has crime. And legislation needs to adapt. But, does the latest updates to the bill target the right cyber criminals?

No, regular folk are in danger. The way the law is worded, it makes violating a terms of service agreement a felony. “The problem is that a lot of routine computer use can exceed ‘authorized access,’” explains Kerr. That means that if your employer prohibits Facebooking on the job and you sneak a peak at a tagged photo, you could face penalties. Senators Patrick Patrick Leahy and Al Franken expressed similar concerns about the proposal, suggesting the administration may be expanding the definition too much, reports eWeek. “We want you to concentrate on the real cyber-crimes, and not the minor things.”

While you might think an employer would never charge an employee for a felony based on Internet wandering, it’s not unprecedented, as Kerr points out. “In 2009, the Justice Department prosecuted a woman for violating the ‘terms of service’ of the social networking site MySpace.com. The woman had been part of a group that set up a MySpace profile using a fake picture. The feds charged her with conspiracy to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.” He also cites a case where a woman faced charges for using Ticketmaster. Abuse of the language of the legislation is a real possibility.

But, what about hackers? The legislation isn’t meant to target these petty insances, it’s to deal with the ever growing hacking threats that businesses and our government face. “Online criminals organize in networks, often with defined roles for participants, in order to manage and perpetuate ongoing criminal enterprises dedicated to stealing commercial data and selling it for profit,” Secret Service Deputy Special Agent in Charge Pablo Martinez said ­regarding the act, reports The Hill. The law is really meant to crack down on organized Internet crime, which is a real threat that most businesses and the government aren’t prepared for, as a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers survey found, reports Bits Blog. When asked about cyber security precautions, most were unprepared. “It turned out that only 13 percent of those surveyed had actually done what the consulting firm considered to be adequate– meaning they had an overall security strategy, they had reviewed the effectiveness of their strategy and they knew precisely the types of breaches that had already hit them over the last 12 months.” Anyhow, the bill might not have that much enforcement power. Kerr overestimates the power of the act.

“The White House plan does not include any criminal or civil provisions for forcing companies to comply with Department of Homeland Security cyber security standards,” continues The Hill.

“The idea was to create a lighter touch … to build incentives into the system,” Associate Deputy Attorney General James Baker said. Meaning, many businesses wont bother to enforce–for better or worse.

­por el personal de El Reportero

Hotel workers and community allies rallied at the Grand Hyatt in San Francisco to demand an end to Hyatt’s abuse of workers.  (PHOTO BY JULIA WONG)

Bay Area hotel workers rallied and marched last Labor Day to celebrate worker solidarity and protest abuse in San Francisco and Santa Clara. Hotel workers, members ­of Bay Area unions, religious leaders, and community allies highlighted the abuses of Hyatt Hotels.

Hyatt has distinguished itself as the worst employer in the hotel industry, garnering criticism for practices that include imposing dangerous workloads on room cleaners, firing career housekeepers to replace them with temporary, minimum wage workers, and turning heat lamps on striking workers in Chicago during a brutal heat wave. In Santa Clara, Hyatt workers are struggling to achieve a fair process to decide whether or not to form a union. In San Francisco, workers at the Grand Hyatt and Hyatt Regency are demanding the right to stand in solidarity with other Hyatt workers across the United States and protest Hyatt’s abuses, wherever they occur.

As convention season heats up, the disputes with Hyatt are escalating. Workers at the Grand Hyatt, Hyatt Regency, Hyatt Fisherman’s Wharf, and Hyatt Santa Clara have called for boycotts of their hotels, and workers at the Grand Hyatt and Hyatt Regency are preparing to go on strike again.

“I have chronic pain in my shoulders and elbows from cleaning 14 rooms a day,” says Antonia Cortez, a 35-year housekeeper at the Grand Hyatt. “In some cities, Hyatt makes housekeepers clean 30 rooms a day. We all work for the same company. I want the right to take action for Hyatt housekeepers no matter where they work.”

Other demonstrations took place in hotels during last years. In one of them, hotel workers rallied and marched to the San Francisco Hilton demanding a fair contract on Jan. 5. 2010. Over 100 protesters were then arrested for sitting in and blocking the doors. The action culminated in the launch of a boycott of the hotel, one of the city’s most luxurious.

by Mike Adams

(NaturalNews) Through a devolving web of greed, self-serving power and a departure from fundamental ethics, Western culture has, over the last hundred years, become the counterfeit culture.

Nothing is real anymore — not the food, not the money, and certainly not the evening news. And because it’s not real, it’s not sustainable. That’s why it’s negoheaded for collapse, which is all too real, as many people are about to find out.

In the mean time, here are some observations about the counterfeit culture in which we all frustratingly find ourselves. It’s all about corporations, governments and institutions being “in the business of” counterfeiting something — faking something or pretending to create something of value when they really aren’t. Ring a bell?

The Counterfeit Culture

The Federal Reserve is in the business of counterfeiting money.

The mainstream media is in the business of counterfeiting news.

The pharmaceutical industry is in the business of counterfeiting medicine (Biopracy! They are stealing molecules from nature then counterfeiting their own patented variations.)

The medical schools are in the business of counterfeiting medical degrees. (When a doctor graduates from medical school, he still knows virtually nothing about nutrition.)

Doctors are in the business of counterfeiting false medical authority.

The mega-sized food corporations are in the business of counterfeiting food. (Processed cheese food product, anyone?)

The global consumer product companies are in the business of manufacturing counterfeit consumer products such a “baby oil” (which is really a petroleum product).

Social networks like Facebook are in the business of counterfeiting friends. (Please LIKE this article, okay?)

Cookie-cutter home builders are in the business of constructing counterfeit homes out of plywood, styrofoam and sheetrock… many these homes will not be standing in just 20 years.

The Pentagon is in the business of counterfeiting war. (Don’t have a war to fight? Bomb the World Trade Center and blame it on someone!)

Mainstream historians are in the business of counterfeiting history. (Everything you were taught about history in public school is a lie…) The globalist banksters are in the business of counterfeiting debt. (You thought it was money, didn’t ya? But it’s really just debt.)

And yet, things that are REAL are called fake

A man who recently stamped his own gold coins — out of real gold — was raided and arrested by the U.S. Treasury Department which announced that his GOLD coins were “counterfeit!” (­http://thewarningsigns.blogspot.com…)

After the drug companies stole the lovastatin molecule from red yeast rice to create their own statin drugs, the FDA tried to ban all red yeast rice as a dietary supplement, claiming it contained “counterfeit statin drugs.(http://www.naturalnews.com/030010_d…)

When the alternative media like NaturalNews and Infowars publishes real news that nobody else will publish, it’s called “fake” by the corrupt, openly bought-and-paid-for mainstream media (the OLD media).

Real is fake, fake is real

That’s how the world works today, folks: Things that are REAL — herbal medicine, gold coins, truthful journalism — are all called FAKE.

Meanwhile, things that are FAKE — the money supply, pharmaceutical medicine, myths of U.S. history and justification for war — are all called REAL.

­by the El Reportero’s news services

Rigoberta Menchu once more aspires to the Guatemalan presidency, this second time with a fully indigenous organization but joined to a leftist coalition.

The 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner founded Winaq (integral human being) and registered it as a party. She then joined Alternativa Nueva Nacion and Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca in a Broad Front, created last April 24.

The leaders and members of the last two groups approved the candidature of Menchu, who considers her participation a choice with different proposals, regardless of the results on Sept. 11. Latin News and Prensa Latina contributed to this report.

The Mexican government declared three days of national ­mourning after 52 people, mostly women, were killed when gangsters set fire to the Casino Royale in Monterrey in the middle of the afternoon of Aug. 25.

It seems almost certain that the gangsters did not intend to kill so many people, only to intimidate the casino owners by destroying their property.

The death toll, probably the second highest for a single incident (after the cold-blooded murder of 72 migrants in San Fernando, Tamaulipas on 23 Aug. 23, 2010 [WR-10-34]) appears to have shocked the government into changing its stance on organized crime. The government, which had previously argued that gangsters killed mostly other gangsters, now seems to be admitting civilians are also targets.

Chávez’s missing US$29 bn

The lengthy mystery over Venezuela’s executive controlled off-budget National Development Fund (Fonden) is gradually being solved by some tenacious opposition bloggers. Even taking into account the fact that these blogs are openly against the government led by President Hugo Chávez, the numbers as provided by the finance ministry don’t appear to lie.

Yet the Fonden doesn’t seem to have much of an economic impact. As one blogger surmises, “projects are drawn out for years, badly executed and the money is not being spent in the right areas, because the Chavista government prioritizes ideology (Defense, Cuba) over investment projects that generate jobs or infrastructure.

And even when they have these projects, after 12 years in power, they have not found a way to be effective and efficient. Corruption is being ignored!”