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John Cobin
John Macarewich Cobin (born 10 March 1963) is a U.S. born blogger, convicted criminal, and social commentator. He renounced his US citizenship in December 2015 and holds a Chilean citizenship. He has taught at various Chilean institutions and was arrested after opening fire at protesters who were blocking the road during the 2019–20 Chilean protests, Chilean social unrest of 2019 in Reñaca beach, Reñaca, being released in 2025. Biography John Cobin was born to Joan Audrey Cobin Birth name, née Tagliere (born 1929), a nurse from New York (state), New York, and George Cobin (1939-1966), a mathematician from Santa Monica, California, Santa Monica, California. His father died from cancer in April 1966. He studied at various educational institutions including Kuyper College, Reformed Bible College, California State University, the University of California, and George Mason University. He holds a Ph.D. in Public policy, Public Policy, an M.A. in economics, and an A.R.E. in Libera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica (; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast (California), South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 United States Census Bureau, U.S. census population was 93,076. Santa Monica is a popular resort town, owing to its climate, beaches, and hospitality industry. It has a diverse economy, hosting headquarters of companies such as Hulu, Activision Blizzard, Universal Music Group, Starz Entertainment Corp., Starz Entertainment, Lionsgate Studios, Illumination (company), Illumination and The Recording Academy. Santa Monica traces its history to Rancho San Vicente y Santa Mónica, granted in 1839 to the Sepúlveda family of California. The rancho was later sold to John Percival Jones, John P. Jones and Robert Symington Baker, Robert Baker, who in 1875, along with his Californio heiress wife Arcadia Bandini de Stearns Baker, founded Santa Monica, which inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIS (TV)
WIS (channel 10) is a television station in Columbia, South Carolina, United States, affiliated with NBC and The CW. The station is owned by Gray Media alongside low-power Telemundo affiliate WTES-LD (channel 16). The two stations share studios on Bull and Gervais Streets (US 1/ US 378) in downtown Columbia and a transmitter on Rush Road (southeast of I-20) in rural southwestern Kershaw County, outside Lugoff. History The station first signed on the air on November 7, 1953. The station's first telecast was a college football game between the University of South Carolina and the University of North Carolina. The Liberty Life Insurance Company, owners of WIS radio (560 AM, now WVOC) through its Broadcasting Company of the South subsidiary, and the Maresco Corporation, owners of WMSC (1320 AM, now WISW) merged their competing applications to avoid what could have been years of hearings and delays. Seven of WMSC's stockholders sold their shares in Maresco and joined the board of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coronavirus Disease 2019
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In January 2020, the disease spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 can vary but often include fever, fatigue, cough, breathing difficulties, loss of smell, and loss of taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days after exposure to the virus. At least a third of people who are infected do not develop noticeable symptoms. Of those who develop symptoms noticeable enough to be classified as patients, most (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe symptoms ( dyspnea, hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging), and 5% develop critical symptoms ( respiratory failure, shock, or multiorgan dysfunction). Older people have a higher risk of developing severe symptoms. Some complications result in death. Some people continue to experience a range of effects ( long COVID) for mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
24 Horas (Chile)
''24 horas'' (English: ''24 hours'') is the brand that identifies the gathering and broadcasting of news in the Chilean public broadcaster Televisión Nacional de Chile. It started as an informative program of the same television network on 1 October 1990. Then in 2009, it became a television channel called Canal 24 horas. It has four different editions: "24 Horas Tu Manana" (mornings), "24 Horas Al Dia (midday), "24 Horas central" (evening), and "24 Horas Al Cierre" (late night). National news bulletins are broadcast by TVN, Canal 24 horas, and TV Chile. History Its first edition was broadcast on October 1, 1990, led by Cecilia Serrano and Bernardo de la Maza on the "Edición Central". Gradually, the editions of the newscast gained ground in the ratings on rival Canal 13, overtaking the latter in the mid-1990s. On October 10, 2001, coinciding with the première of the soap opera '' Amores de Mercado'' (''Market's Lover''), which preceded the news, the Central Edition scor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrés Bello National University
The Andrés Bello University (; UNAB) is a Chilean private university founded in 1988. Rankings UNAB is ranked 56th among Latin American universities in 2022, and Andrés Bello University currently ranked 8th among Chilean universities according to the CSIC webometric. History Foundation and definition of the project The university was formally established in October 1988. In the early years, the university offered professions that required good infrastructure and facilities. The first specializations offered were Law, Architecture, Engineering, Business and Journalism. Civil engineering was added in its various manifestations: Civil Engineering, Accountancy and Psychology. Engineering in Aquaculture, which has offered classes since 1993, was an initiative with University Andres Bello. In conjunction with this teaching program, the Marine Research Center was created at the same time in Caleta de Quintay. The Marine Research Center has become the leading provider of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axel Kaiser
Axel Kaiser (born 4 July 1981) is a Chilean writer, lawyer and political scientist known for his work on classical liberalism and free-market economics. Kaiser is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society and has published articles in Forbes and other publications. He is also the author of several books, including ''The Tyranny of Equality'' and ''The Populist Deception''. Biography Axel Kaiser was born from Hans Christian Kaiser Wagner and Rosmarie Barents Haensgen, a German Chileans, German-Chilean family. His paternal grandparents were Rosemarie Wagner Schilling, a fourth-generation German-Chilean, and her husband, the German immigrant Friedrich Ernst Kaiser Richter, who defined politically as a Social Democrat, arrived in Chile as a refugee from Wurtemberg in 1936, escaping National Socialist Germany after Adolf Hitler's rise to power and before World War II, having foreseen its outbreak. He married his wife in April 1939 and settled in Villarrica, Chile, Villarrica in South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermógenes Pérez De Arce Ibieta
Hermógenes Pérez de Arce Ibieta (born 10 January 1936) is a Chilean people, Chilean lawyer and politician who served as Chamber of Deputies (Chile), deputy during Salvador Allende's government. In his country, he is commonly known for being a fierce supporter of Augusto Pinochet's Pinochet dictatorship, dictatorship. More precisely, he is known for being a leading Historical negationism, denialist of the human rights violations in Pinochet's Chile. For long time Hermógenes Pérez de Arce was a regular columnist in ''El Mercurio''. Prior to that, he was active in ''Portada (magazine), Portada'', a magazine with conservative, Catholic and Francoism, Francoist leanings. He is also a writer and has written several books. In 2003 he was homaged in Casa Piedra by hard-line Pinochetism, Pinochetists for "rescuing the historical truth of Chile". In December 2019 Pérez de Arce was expelled from the TV program ''Bienvenidos'' by hostress Tonka Tomicic for his repeated denialist comme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Clinic (newspaper)
''The Clinic'' is a partly satirical Chilean newspaper that offers analysis and opinion on politics, culture, and current affairs. It was founded by Patricio Fernández Chadwick in November 1998, and includes a broad mix of cultural criticism, jokes, in-depth interviews, and investigative work. The name was inspired by Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's October 1998 arrest in Britain at The London Clinic, which bears the name ''The Clinic'' on its façade. In its first incarnation, it was only a few pages long, distributed only within Santiago, and costing 100 pesos (US$0.22 at the time). Over the years, it has changed significantly, and in 2013 cost 1000 pesosThe ClinicPortada 499''(Cover 499)'', June 20, 2013. Archived iArchive.is (US$1.75 in 2013) and averages forty pages. Currently, it is published every Thursday during normal operation times (except for a short hiatus during February). It published its 499th edition on June 20, 2013, and its 900th edition on October 6, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neoliberal
Neoliberalism is a political and economic ideology that advocates for free-market capitalism, which became dominant in policy-making from the late 20th century onward. The term has multiple, competing definitions, and is most often used pejoratively. In scholarly use, the term is often left undefined or used to describe a multitude of phenomena. However, it is primarily employed to delineate the societal transformation resulting from market-based reforms. Neoliberalism originated among European Liberalism, liberal scholars during the 1930s. It emerged as a response to the perceived decline in popularity of classical liberalism, which was seen as giving way to a social liberal desire to control markets. This shift in thinking was shaped by the Great Depression and manifested in policies designed to counter the volatility of free markets. One motivation for the development of policies designed to mitigate the volatility of capitalist free markets was a desire to avoid repeatin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlas Shrugged
''Atlas Shrugged'' is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. It is her longest novel, the fourth and final one published during her lifetime, and the one she considered her ''magnum opus'' in the realm of fiction writing. She described the theme of ''Atlas Shrugged'' as "the role of man's mind in existence" and it includes elements of science fiction, mystery fiction, mystery, and romance novel, romance. The book explores a number of philosophical themes from which Rand would subsequently develop Objectivism, including reason, Property rights (economics), property rights, individualism, Libertarianism in the United States, libertarianism, and capitalism and depicts what Rand saw as the failures of governmental coercion. Of Rand's works of fiction, it contains her most extensive statement of her philosophical system. The book depicts a dystopian United States in which heavy industry companies suffer under increasingly burdensome laws and regulations. Railroad executive Dagny Taggart and her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
