Thursday, July 24, 2014

On "Jíbaros" and some other valuable insights of political psychoanalysis: "...apparently he's the youngest of the 4 brothers, was brought up as a spoiled brat and still thinks he's cute and can get away with anything." - Making fun of Agapito and his administration - from Topix


» Making fun of Agapito and his administration.
23/07/14 23:46 from 
13 Comments, last updated on Wednesday Jul 23 by El Cacique 






Since: Oct 12


He is not very classy ... the negative connotations associated with the word jibaro come to mind. 


Jíbaro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jíbaro 







Jíbaro is a term commonly used in Puerto Rico to refer to mountain-dwelling peasants... 

In Puerto Rico, the Jíbaro culture has its origins in the native Taíno culture and the term jíbaro usually refers to "La Gente de la Montaña" (the people of the interior mountainous regions of Puerto Rico) and emerged in the 16th century with the blending of the Pre-Columbian Taíno and Spanish European cultures in the central mountains of the island. Some elements of the jíbaro culture are still visible today. For example, when Luis Muñoz Marín founded the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) in 1938, the party adopted the jíbaro hat, the pava, as its symbol. The PDP seal shows the pava with the words "Pan, Tierra, y Libertad", which translates to "Bread, Land, and Freedom". Also, every ChristmasPuerto Ricans use the Jíbaro instruments, music, and cuisine to celebrate these festivities.

Puerto Rican jíbaro in modern times.

The first known use of the word "jíbaro" occurred in 1814 in Diario Económico de Puerto Rico. In that paper there is a letter to the editor dated 17 June 1814 signed by “El Gíbaro Paciente” (The Patient Jíbaro). It is used in the context of an indigenous Puerto Rican character.[3] 









Jorge
Puerto Rico

What I cant digest about Agapito is the fact that, apparently he's the youngest of the 4 brothers, was brought up as a spoiled brat and still thinks he's cute and can get away with anything. 
... 

Agapito reminds me of China's last emperor, Puyi and Spain's last king before their last civil war, Alfonso XIII.


El Cacique

He's not polished. Nobody has ever accused him of being classy. 

In other words: He's not ready for prime time. LOL!

But, he's folksy and down-to-earth.... However, that's not going to help him become competent with the position in which he was elected and entrusted with.
... 

You are no superior because you're from Puerto Rico.

Your issue is that you really have an inferiority complex. 

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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

LongIslander1987 wrote: "He is as dumb as a bag of rocks..."



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» Told ya'-according to PRico's current governor, niuyoricans, stateside
22/07/14 00:18 from 
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LongIslander1987 wrote:
He is as dumb as a bag of rocks. The Populares should be reaching out to statehooders instead of independenistas. The statehooders are but 900,000+ strong, they are but a 100,000 on a good day.
They are getting desperate. They say a dying animal who knows he is a goner fights the hardest ...

Historically, they feel they are entitled to define Puerto Ricanness. That's not new.

Agree..., "on a good day". LOL

As for the "populares", they are not "getting"...., they ARE desperate. Their colonialeconomy finally collapsed. They insist the govt. is $71 billion in debt, when it is actually well over $100 billion.

3,000 Puerto Ricans leave for the States, each month.

Crime is everything BUT under control.

Over 39,000 jobs have been lost this past fiscal year, Agapito's first.

Today, in the Vocero, the guy had the nerve to claim that there will be a surplus in theeconomy, next year. 

I have to agree with RHC, Sila, Agapito, Melo, Anibal and so many other colonialists. Their colony lacks the necessary economic sovereignty to develop.

Let's see the kind of "colonial development" they are going to present he federal DOJ Secretary, if any.

Monday, July 21, 2014

Puerto Rico buys time with investors, creditors but many still see trouble for slumping island - AP

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Puerto Rico buys time with investors, creditors but many still see trouble for slumping island - Sports

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico's government has managed its first balanced budget in more than a decade. Sales tax revenues are up and the publicly owned power company has won breathing room to pay its debts.
The U.S. territory has managed to buy some time to stave off an economic crisis, but it may only be for a moment. As the island tries to pay off some $73 billion in public debt, investors crucial to keeping Puerto Rican bonds afloat are wary at best.
"Most people are very much in a watch-and-wait mode," said David Tawil, co-founder and portfolio manager of New York-based Maglan Capital.
Puerto Rico has a shrinking population and economy. A nearly eight-year recession has sent businesses and people fleeing to the mainland U.S. and spooked those holding billions of dollars of the island's debt. That has sharply raised the cost of government borrowing and lowered the value of the bonds it has issued.
One looming threat is the condition of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, which is roughly $9 billion in debt. After raising fears it would use a new debt-restructuring law to default on a credit payment due July 1, it announced it had won a reprieve: Creditors agreed to postpone payments on about $800 million until July 31.
Officials also announced that revenues from the government's sales and use tax for this past fiscal year rose 7 per cent, though that was short of projections.
Those glimmers of good news followed an uproar on Wall Street over a law signed June 28 that allows certain public corporations to work with creditors and restructure their debt. If no agreement is reached within nine months, the case would go to court. That makes investors nervous about a potential loss of money, depending on the court's ruling.
Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla touted the law as a way to protect the island's general fund, which long has been used to support the island's public corporations, which account for about 40 per cent of Puerto Rico's public debt. If a public corporation defaulted on its debt without the law, bondholders could move to increase rates, which would affect public services, he said.
Treasury Secretary Melba Acosta said in a statement that the restructuring law aims to make those corporations self-sufficient.
"We stand behind the act and will defend it as a reasonable and necessary measure to protect the interests of all stakeholders of our public corporations," she said.
But ratings agencies punished Puerto Rican bonds with a flurry of downgrades. Franklin Templeton and Oppenheimer investment funds filed a lawsuit the same day the law was signed, arguing it was unconstitutional, and financial companies began to hold conference calls with jittery investors.
While Garcia repeatedly reminded bondholders of his efforts to stabilize the economy and generate revenue, "all that stuff is secondary at this point," Tawil said. "This law — its potential power, its unknown use and its unknown legality — I think, carries a much heavier cloud over Puerto Rico's solvency and the potential recovery to creditors than any of the fundamental progress that is being made."
It's only a matter of weeks before the financial future of the power company will be known — whether it will be the first to use the new law, said Triet Nguyen, founder of Axios Advisors LLC, an Illinois-based municipal research and investment advisory company.
"Something is going to happen there by middle of August," he said. "I think pretty much all the public corporations have severe liquidity problems."
Creditors are closely watching whether the government tries to reach substantial agreements with banks this month on how to handle upcoming payments, said Dick Larkin, director of credit analysis at Florida-based HJ Sims & Co. Inc.
"They're going to be looking for some sign of progress, not just a temporary relief," he said.
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Soldiers, Spies and the Moon: Secret U.S. and Soviet Plans from the 1950s and 1960s

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Earth rising behind the moon. (Photo courtesy of NASA, Lewis Research Center)
Washington, DC – Forty-five years ago, astronaut Neil Armstrong took his “one small step” for mankind, becoming the first person to set foot on the moon. The program that resulted in that historic event — managed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) — had been a very public one ever since its announcement by President John F. Kennedy in 1961. Even the Soviet government had publicized aspects of its own effort.
But there were also highly secret elements to the U.S. and Soviet schemes, which are the subject of today’s National Security Archive posting of previously classified records. The documents focus on three topics — early U.S. military plans, including the possibility of conducting nuclear tests in space, the use of the moon to reflect signals for military or intelligence purposes, and U.S. intelligence analyses and estimates of Soviet missions and their intentions to land a man on the lunar surface.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: Puerto Rico on shaky ground with creditors | Business

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This July 16, 2014, photo, shows an aerial view of cruise ships docked at the Old San Juan pier in Puerto Rico. A nearly eight-year recession has sent businesses and people fleeing to the mainland U.S. as the island tries to pay off billions billion in public debt. RICARDO ARDUENGO — AP Photo
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico's government has managed its first balanced budget in more than a decade. Sales tax revenues are up and the publicly owned power company has won breathing room to pay its debts.
The U.S. territory has managed to buy some time to stave off an economic crisis, but it may only be for a moment. As the island tries to pay off some $73 billion in public debt, investors crucial to keeping Puerto Rican bonds afloat are wary at best.
"Most people are very much in a watch-and-wait mode," said David Tawil, co-founder and portfolio manager of New York-based Maglan Capital.
Puerto Rico has a shrinking population and economy. A nearly eight-year recession has sent businesses and people fleeing to the mainland U.S. and spooked those holding billions of dollars of the island's debt. That has sharply raised the cost of government borrowing and lowered the value of the bonds it has issued.
One looming threat is the condition of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, which is roughly $9 billion in debt. After raising fears it would use a new debt-restructuring law to default on a credit payment due July 1, it announced it had won a reprieve: Creditors agreed to postpone payments on about $800 million until July 31.
Officials also announced that revenues from the government's sales and use tax for this past fiscal year rose 7 percent, though that was short of projections.
Those glimmers of good news followed an uproar on Wall Street over a law signed June 28 that allows certain public corporations to work with creditors and restructure their debt. If no agreement is reached within nine months, the case would go to court. That makes investors nervous about a potential loss of money, depending on the court's ruling.
Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla touted the law as a way to protect the island's general fund, which long has been used to support the island's public corporations, which account for about 40 percent of Puerto Rico's public debt. If a public corporation defaulted on its debt without the law, bondholders could move to increase rates, which would affect public services, he said.
Treasury Secretary Melba Acosta said in a statement that the restructuring law aims to make those corporations self-sufficient.
"We stand behind the act and will defend it as a reasonable and necessary measure to protect the interests of all stakeholders of our public corporations," she said.
But ratings agencies punished Puerto Rican bonds with a flurry of downgrades. Franklin Templeton and Oppenheimer investment funds filed a lawsuit the same day the law was signed, arguing it was unconstitutional, and financial companies began to hold conference calls with jittery investors.
While Garcia repeatedly reminded bondholders of his efforts to stabilize the economy and generate revenue, "all that stuff is secondary at this point," Tawil said. "This law — its potential power, its unknown use and its unknown legality — I think, carries a much heavier cloud over Puerto Rico's solvency and the potential recovery to creditors than any of the fundamental progress that is being made."
It's only a matter of weeks before the financial future of the power company will be known — whether it will be the first to use the new law, said Triet Nguyen, founder of Axios Advisors LLC, an Illinois-based municipal research and investment advisory company.
"Something is going to happen there by middle of August," he said. "I think pretty much all the public corporations have severe liquidity problems."
Creditors are closely watching whether the government tries to reach substantial agreements with banks this month on how to handle upcoming payments, said Dick Larkin, director of credit analysis at Florida-based HJ Sims & Co. Inc.
"They're going to be looking for some sign of progress, not just a temporary relief," he said.



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