Miami Hairball streaming the Americas Conference - Opening session starts Tuesday at 9:15 a.m.

[flamingdem]

http://www.miamiherald.com/americasconference/index.html

Oscar Arias and Bill Clinton will be there..

From FIU.edu:
MIAMI – An internationally distinguished group of government officials and business leaders will gather in Coral Gables at the Biltmore hotel on September 29-30, 2009 for the 13th annual Americas Conference®, an event co-hosted by Florida International University, the State of Florida, The World Bank and The Miami Herald.

The forum, covering economic, political and public policy issues facing the region, is expected to draw top executives and political leaders from throughout Latin America and the Caribbean – more than 500 of the hemisphere’s key decision makers – for roundtable discussions focusing on the region’s recovery, economic development and business opportunities.

This year’s theme is “After the Crisis: Emerging Challenges and Political Stability” and keynote speakers will include Nobel Laureate and President of Costa Rica Oscar Arias; United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti and Former President Bill Clinton; Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) Jose Miguel Insulza; Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, Hubert Alexander Ingraham and Dan Restrepo, Head of Latin American Affairs for U.S. National Security Council.

For the second year, The Miami Herald and FIU have joined forces to organize the Americas Conference®, with the support of the State of Florida’s Office of Tourism, Trade and Economic Development and FIU’s Institute for Public Management and Community Service (IPMCS). For the first time this year, they will welcome the World Bank as a programming partner.

“By joining forces, we are bringing together some of the leading thinkers and analysts of Latin America,” said FIU President Mark Rosenberg, who will participate in the conference. “Efforts like this enhance our students’ education and represent FIU’s commitment to global and local engagement.”

The conference will feature panels and discussions on topics such as:

* Latin America and the Caribbean After the Crisis
* The Business of Cuba: A Post-embargo Discussion
* Mexico’s Economy at a Crossroads
* Critical Policy Issues in the Region
* Going Green in Latin America and the Caribbean

Other confirmed speakers include: Everett Eissenstat, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for the Americas; Jose Antonio García Belaúde, Peru’s Minister of Foreign Affairs; Javier Hurtado Mercado, President of Irupana Andean Organic Food; Mauricio Macri, Buenos Aires’ Mayor; Edmundo Perez Yoma, Chile’s Minister of Foreign Affairs; Daniel Scioli, Governor of the Buenos Aires province; and Eduardo Torres Llosa, CEO of Peru’s BBVA Banco Continental, among others.

Allan Rosenbaum, director of the IPMCS, called it “an extraordinary event.”

[Peace Patriot]

1. Thanks for the compliment!

It was fairly easy to come up with names for the Associated Pukes*, Rotters and the Wall Street Urinal, that accurately reflect their vicious unreliability as 'news' organizations, and their savage reporting on Venezuela, President Chavez and the Latin American left in particular, but the Miami Hairball baffled me for a long time. There are not many words that rhyme with Herald. (A rhyme makes it easy.) Then one day I watched my cat try to cough up a hairball. Its whole body expresses revulsion,. There is nothing quite so awful as the repeated vomity lurch of a cat's body, and the toilet-plunger sound that the cat makes, trying to expel the indigestible wad of hair. Aha!, I thought. That's how I feel when I read the Miami Herald's wad of lies, disinformation and psyops--as if I was a cat and it was a hairball!

Thus it got its new name. (And it almost rhymes.)

You know those Halloween plastic vomit things? Somebody with a sense of humor ought to place them around the Coral Gables Biltmore this week, wherever certain "internationally distinguished government officials and business leaders" stink up the premises--at the doors of their rooms, on their chairs, on their room service trays, on their bar stools, at the bottom of their pitchers of water if they are speaking, like that. Could leave a rose for Insulza and a few others. But mostly vomit.

:puke:

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*(The Associated Pukes doesn't rhyme, but it is such a perfect description of their 'journalism'--Republican vomit--that I find it irresistible as an epithet. And it has a "P" and an "s." It works quite well. The best I've been able to do with the NYT is the New York Grimes. That doesn't quite say it. Slimes? Just thought of that. That's good. The New York Slimes. And I haven't been able to do anything yet with ABCNBCCBSCNN et al. I was originally inspired by "Faux News." I salute whoever thought that up! It's astonishing how universally bad, bad, BAD they all are.)

[flamingdem]

2. Thanks for making me laugh!

Though I think some people read that and went HUH?????!!!

Hairball... is that a typo?