sduford on Nov 29 2007 | Filed under: Panama
Here’s a nice article on an American couple who bought a home in Cerro Azul, Panama, a very similar development to the one I bought in, Altos del Maria. Gives you a good feel for what it’s like down there.
Also, here’s an article on retiring in Mexico. The interesting thing here is that it [...]
sduford on Nov 22 2007 | Filed under: Miscellaneous
Today we are experiencing the first blizzard of the season in Ottawa, expecting 10-15 cm of snow. Here’s what it’s like this morning outside my house:
The Panamanian rain forest would feel very good right now…
sduford on Nov 13 2007 | Filed under: Politics, Science
Finally, a US Presidential candidate takes a strong stance on Climate Change and realizes the potential it presents to create jobs and bring her country out of a gigantic slump.
I hope she gets rewarded for it, and that she will deliver the goods.
I also hope that other candidates will follow her lead.
Read the full article…
sduford on Nov 08 2007 | Filed under: Politics
Salon.com is on a roll today. here’s another outstanding article on the USA and the situation in the middle-East. It talks about the 4 fallacies about the Middle-East. here’s some excerpts:
Four related misconceptions continue to distort our Middle East policy: the terrorism freakout, the Satan myth, the they’re-all-the-same fallacy, and the belief that we’re [...]
sduford on Nov 07 2007 | Filed under: Politics
Gone are the days when stern words by a U.S. president could prevent rash action by an errant foreign leader like Musharraf.
By Sidney Blumenthal, Salon.com here’s an excerpt:
The neoconservative project is crashing. The “unipolar moment,” the post-Cold War unilateralist utopia imagined by neocon pundit Charles Krauthammer; “hegemony,” the ultimate goal projected by the September 2000 [...]
sduford on Nov 07 2007 | Filed under: Miscellaneous, Photography
The Canadian dollar hit $1.10 US this morning as the USD continues it’s precipitous drop towards becoming an irrelevant world currency.
I wrote this blog entry a little while ago about how Subaru (and other car companies) are raping Canadians. Well now, the new numbers are something like this:
Subaru Outback XT Limited in Canada: $45,900. The [...]
sduford on Nov 06 2007 | Filed under: Panama
I just added a new blog to my blogroll: Raising the Roof
This blog is by Kevin at the International Herald Tribune and he uses it to discuss international real estate investing and showcases unusual houses.
He just wrote this entry on the real estate boom in Central America. I actually talked to him on the phone [...]
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