Ecuador Blogs….Which Ones Should You Read?

Ecuador Blogs….Which Ones Should You Read?


Lets try and guess how many Ecuador blogs and forums there are…
Go ahead and pick a number….
Lots and lots of them, that is for sure. A good guess might be somewhere between 300 and 500.  Some of these are more active than others.
So which ones do you take the time to read? How do you find them?
Maybe you just Google “Ecuador Blogs” and look for the most popular. Those usually will show up on page one and two.
Maybe you join an Ecuador Facebook Forum and then get referrals from the membership…

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Hungry Planet: What The World Eats

What's on family dinner tables around the globe? Photographs by Peter Menzel from the book "Hungry Planet"

Sept. 20, 2013128 Comments

Peter Menzel, from the book, "Hungry Planet: What the World Eats."

Ecuador: The Ayme family of Tingo. Food expenditure for one week: $31.55. Family recipe: Potato soup with cabbage. (The family in the picture lives in Tingo, a small town just outside of Quito, ECUADOR)

Read more: Hungry Planet: What The World Eats | TIME.com http://world.time.com/2013/09/20/hungry-planet-what-the-world-eats/#ixzz2lhNaOlbM

Comment by Jour-Ja: Thanks to my few followers, I will try to do more original & better content next year! But I just had to share the above photo right here at Thanksgiving Time! What a Beautiful Ecuadorian Family in their humble abode w/ and abundance of Food! Let's not forget those less fortunate than we at all times as well as this time of year, be sure to reach out to your fellow man & woman, give them a hug & encouragement, not everyone lives on the Equator w/ a year round growing Season.

 ...you talk about Thankful~ and happy to have an abundance of fresh food:-) The family in the picture lives in Tingo, a small town just outside of Quito, ECUADOR -

The picture was taken by Peter Menzel, for a book he did with his wife, Faith D'Aluisio, called "Hungry Planet: What the World Eats."

Do note in photo over the Father's head is an "Angel's Trumpet Plant - Brugmansia / Floripondio (can be made into Scopolamine) used by EC Indigenous to help the young children & babies to sleep well and have sweet dreams,

..but is also commonly found in Boliva / Peru / COL ( and other SA countries) and is also used by other aspects of SA society in the Scopolamine form for nefarious reasons, it puts you sort of under a spell / trance like state for- date rape - take me to your ATM etc etc crimes., so be on your toes and alert at this time of year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopolamine

Video Camera surveilance will double in 2014

 22 NOV 2013- www.hoy.com.ec

  Someone is probably watching you. Video surveillance in Ecuador has increased five-fold in two years. There are now 2,000 surveillance cameras in the country. And that number is expected to double in 2014. These surveillance systems are located on streets and bridges, at harbors, parks, airports, beaches, borders and soon within fútbol stadiums. 

 

  Critics call it an invasion of privacy. But authorities believe the cameras help in the fight against crime. ECU-911 said every day it receives hundreds of requests from people who want the cameras put in their neighborhoods. By year's end, all taxis and public buses will also be equipped with surveillance cameras.

 

La videovigilancia se duplicará en 2014

Publicado el 22/Noviembre/2013 | 00:52

El número de cámaras se quintuplicó en dos años.

Sonría, aquí también hay cámaras: la polémica videovigilancia llegó hasta los taxis y buses en Ecuador, y su expansión parece irrefrenable ante el éxito que le atribuyen las autoridades en la lucha contra la delincuencia.

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Via - David Sasaki, 

American Borders Will Be Changing

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

American Borders Will Be Changing

Wendy McElroy
Activist Post

An iron curtain is slowly descending around the borders of America. When it falls, some people will be shut in; others will be shut out. It will be up to bureaucrats and agents with guns to decide which one of those people you are.

Changes in border policy are in the wind. On June 27th, 2013, the 1,300-page Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act passed the Senate and proceeded to the House of Representatives. Debate on the Act has focused on the path of citizenship being extended to the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in America. This is controversial because Republicans fear that the new Americans, and especially Hispanics, will vote Democrat in upcoming elections. Happily, the bill has stalled in the House.

But one of the worst features of the Act has bipartisan support: namely, the ramping up of border security. (The security provisions were a cynical bribe to House Republicans by Senate Democrats who are far more interested in ramming the immigration policies through.) The Act allocates an astounding $46.3 billion for increased border control. It proposes to hire 20,000 additional border patrol agents, swelling their numbers from about 21,000 (in fiscal 2012) to about 40,000. The stated focus of the mega bucks and muscle is the US-Mexican border but the entire system would be even more militarized.

Shutting People In

The proposed doubling of might comes in the wake of the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA's) announcement of a dramatic expansion in the screening of airline passengers. Even before a flyer arrives, he will be profiled by the TSA based on his travel record, and personal documents such as employment information, property records, police files, tax data, and car registration.....

What to Expect at the US Border?
More questioning. More in-depth screening. More difficulty in traveling to and from the United States. The situation will grow steadily worse through 2014, when a compromise bill on immigration and border control is probable....http://www.activistpost.com/2013/11/american-borders-will-be-changing.html

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