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26 March, 2010

GLORIA ESTEFAN DESPUES DE LA MARCHA COMENTA


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STATEMENT FROM GLORIA ESTEFAN


                 STATEMENT FROM GLORIA ESTEFAN


On March 21st in Havana, Cuba, the "Damas De Blanco" (Ladies In White) ended their Marches commemorating the Seventh Anniversary of the "Black Spring" in Cuba which took place in April of 2003 when they suffered the unjust incarceration of their husbands and sons. Since then, these valiant women, dignified, and united in the pain of being forcibly separated from their loved ones have been fighting for their release.



This past week, the violent persecution that the "Damas De Blanco" suffered at the hands of Cuba's repressive government was such that the President of the European People's Party (EPP) in the European Parliament, Joseph Daul, declared, "It is high time that the European Union clearly defends all those who, in Cuba, risk their lives on a daily basis defending Human Rights and who are working towards a peaceful transition to democracy".The moment has come for us as well; Cubans who live in freedom and anyone who would like to join us, to show our strength, support and spirit to the "Damas" and to the Cuban people. LET'S WALK TOGETHER LIKE THE "DAMAS DE BLANCO"; with dignity, in silence, with a flower of hope in our hands and dressed in white to represent purity of thought, actions and new beginnings!

In the words of our illustrious poet, Jose Marti, "The campaigns of a people are only weak when in them is not enlisted the heart of a woman; but when a woman is shaken and helps, when a woman, timid and quiet in her nature, cheers and applauds, when a woman cultured and virtuous anoints a deed with the honey of her love, the deed is invincible." Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 5pm we will gather on Beacon Blvd. between S.W. 7th and 8th Street. We will walk on 8th Street in Little Havana from 27th Avenue to 22nd Avenue beginning at 6pm Sharp.We will walk for the love of freedom.

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21 March, 2010

Séptimo Aniversario de la Primavera Negra. New York.


20 de marzo de 2010 Héctor Lemagne Sandó:.



“Los grandes derechos no se compran con lagrimas sino con sangre” José Martí.

Se cumplen 7 años de una horrenda redada contra cubanos que sólo pedían libertad y respeto a los derechos humanos. Durante esos años un grupo de cubanos nos hemos manifestado frente al 315 de Lexington y la 38 Ave., sede de la guarida castrista En Manhattan, NY. Pero este 18 de marzo hemos tomado la ofensiva.

El asesinato que el despiadado régimen de los castro ha realizado con el humilde albañil Orlando Zapata Tamayo, ha exarcebado la furia que los cubanos tenemos contra los crímenes que ese monstruoso sistema comete, diariamente, contra nuestros hermanos. El desgobierno castrista trata de pintar a Raúl Castro como bueno, pero resulta que es más malo que el hermano. Y se puede comprobar por las imagines que por todo el mundo, mediante el Internet, y la TV ha dado la vuelta al mundo.

Las damas de Blanco han sido vejadas, humilladas arrastradas y más. Esas mambisas de este siglo ya tienen un lugar en la historia. No se en que lugar queda las que la ofenden. Lo único que se es que no será nunca el mismo.

Un grupo de cubanos decidió reunirnos, este 18 de marzo, en el lugar mas céntrico de New York, Times Square. Repartimos literatura relacionada con Orlando Zapata Tamayo y los injustos arrestos que el 18 de marzo de 2003 hizo el criminal régimen de los castro. Muchas personas nos pedían esa literatura y se interesaban por nuestra protesta. Incluso sostuvimos una extensa conversación con 3 árabes que no entendían por qué protestábamos contra el régimen que impera en Cuba por 51 años, uno de ellos se declaró abiertamente a favor de Sadam Hussein. A las 5:15PM caminamos hacia la misión castrista y de nuevo los cogimos por sorpresa, porque en sus mismas narices, otra vez, les gritamos ¡ASESINOS! Pusimos los letreros en la puerta y ventanas del edificio que le usurpa a la nación cubana el grupo de criminales que con terror pisotea a los cubanos, cantamos nuestro himno y un hermano, Roberto Pardiñas, valientemente se atrevió a cruzar la calle y meterse casi adentro de la misión. Ya ellos habían llamado a la policía que llego en esos precisos momentos. Le llamó la atención y se dirigió a nosotros. Todos los de la misión castrista se dieron cuenta que el policía estaba de acuerdo con nosotros por la sonrisa que todos desplegamos cuando observamos la forma amigable y sonriente del policía que estuvo largo rato hablando con nosotros manifestando su devoción por nuestra causa.

La noche, del mismo 18 de de marzo, cuando los de la misión castrista descansaban, un grupo de buenos cubanos se apareció con una batería de carro, un laptop, un proyector que reflejaba, en la fachada de la misión, la gigante imagen de un humilde hombre que el 23 de febrero de 2010 entró a la historia por la puerta ancha. ¡Orlando Zapata Tamayo vive hoy mas que nunca! Y lo ha demostrado por la reacción que el mundo ha tenido ante su trágica muerte. Los cubanos libres tenemos el deber de seguir denunciando el asesinato que el régimen de los castro ha hecho contra nuestro Hermano. Por eso la misión castrista está pidiendo protección de la policía. ¡Que ironía! Piden la protección de la policía cuando la policía castrista reprime, oprime y masacra a las mujeres en Cuba. ¡Qué ironía! Se puso flores y una foto del mártir. Y los sicarios no pudieron hacer nada. Primero porque éramos muchos, después porque no lo esperaban, y después porque ya tenemos la ofensiva. ¡Ganamos la calle y no la vamos a perder!



Debemos agradecer el gesto del grupo de jóvenes que, a través de la tecnología, ha tomado la antorcha hacia la libertad. Esas son las iniciativas que hace tiempo hacían falta. Esas iniciativas nos llevan a la ofensiva. La ofensiva que, también hacia tiempo faltaba.

Eduardo Arocena: Escriba, ayude y apoye al Hermano que sufre en prisión por luchar por la libertad de Cuba. EDUARDO AROCENA LEGAL DEFENSE'. --Bank of America--. Account No. 2290 3042 5902 .

Eduardo Arocena # 12573-004 D-Unit. Federal Correctional Institution. PO BOX 33

Terre Haute, IN 47808.

Chistes de verdad: No es tiempo de chistes porque ha muerto Orlando Zapata Tamayo, y Guillermo Fariñas está en huelga de hambre y sed.

Internet: Puede seguirnos en twitter, y en facebook lo invitamos a que visite “Grupo de Apoyo a Masones En Cuba” GAMEC. Y Libertad, Igualdad, Fraternidad 3 en Yahoo. En esos sitios actualizamos las noticias de lo que verdaderamente sucede en la masonería dentro de Cuba. Donde se desenmascara a los hipócritas y traidores que viven de la masonería y no por la masonería.

 When you enter  at the site for

 DEMOCIDE :  MURDER BY GOVERNMENT


Click on each square ...click sobre los rectangulos para ir a diferente pagina

Governments have murdered hundreds of millions of their citizens and those under their control. The questions are, then, how is this democide defined, is genocide included, how many have been killed, how do we find this out, and what sources can be used?

CONTENTS

Chapter: The new concept of democide: Definition and qualifications [1]


Table: empirical types of democide [5]


Paper: Democide versus genocide: which is what?


Article: What is Genocide?


Class syllabus on repression and democide


Appendix: methods and procedures for estimating democide [2]


Chapter: pre-20th Century democide [1]


Chapter: estimates, calculations, and sources [5]


Table: selected democides [1]


Defining mortacracy as democide and demoslaughter


Who were the Mortacracies of 2005?


The table in the upper right is from Table 3.1 of Death By Government.


Look for Democidio in Google. :

Professor Rummel, University of Hawai


http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/MURDER.HTM

20 March, 2010

¿Y LOS BLOGUEROS Y LA OPOSICIÓN DONDE ESTÁN?

http://www.nuevoaccion.com/
Por: Luís Alberto Ramírez-FLTC
La hora de la libertad total de Cuba ha llegado. ¡No la dejemos pasar!

Hoy es el cuarto día de protesta que las Damas de Blanco están llevando acabo en las calles de La Habana, a pesar de que la tiranía de los Castro y su pandilla criminal les han arrojado con una agresividad brutal sus turbas violentas y vociferantes y donde esta treintena de mujeres han tenido que enfrentar, con mucha bravura y dignidad, los golpes, los insultos y que las acorralen y arrastren como si fueran animales por las calles hasta las guaguas de la represiva policía política de la tiranía.

El mundo ha visto como un régimen cobarde y tambaleante lleno de pánico ataca ferozmente a mujeres indefensas por la simple razón de pedir la liberación de los presos políticos cubanos, particularmente la de sus esposos encarcelados y condenados injustamente a condenas de más de veinte años en el año 2003, además de pedir en alta voz la libertad para Cuba.
También el mundo ha visto hace a penas unos días atrás como ésta misma tiranía dejó morir vilmente al opositor encarcelado Orlando Zapata Tamayo, quien llevaba una huelga de hambre y sed por más de ochenta días.
¿Qué más hay que ver para sentirse indignado con esta asesina y criminal tiranía de los Castro? ¿Cuántos asesinatos, palizas y el sin fin de horrores hay que ver para que la comunidad internacional civilizada se decida de una vez por todas a exigir y presionar con toda su fuerza y poder para que los Castro asesinos y sus cómplices abandonen el poder de inmediato?

¿Y el negrito de la Casa Blanca que diablos está haciendo para con sus semejantes de la raza negra en Cuba que están ofrendando sus vidas y su libertad a favor de la causa libertaria de nuestro país con tanta valentía y dignidad? ¿Qué ha dicho o hecho Obama sobre la violencia y crueldad con que han sido tratadas las Damas de Blanco? Nada ha dicho o hecho éste demagogo barato que la mayoría del pueblo estadounidense le dio su respaldo a pesar de que se le advirtió quién era el personaje.
Pero todo lo anterior expresado se queda en letras muy minúsculas cuándo nos preguntamos, ¿y los blogueros y la oposición donde están? Cuba está viviendo un momento sumamente neurálgico donde la solidaridad y la unidad opositora son de extrema necesidad.


Las voces del exilio deberían recordarle a nuestro blogueros y líderes opositores dentro de la isla que la libertad total de Cuba requiere en este momento de hombres y mujeres valientes que entiendan que la calle es la respuesta. Y los que estamos afuera debemos de apoyar al máximo en todos los órdenes y hasta estar dispuestos ha arriesgar nuestra libertad o vida para unirnos a la estrategia de lucha de la desobediencia civil dentro de nuestro país junto con nuestros hermanos blogueros y de la oposición interna.



15 March, 2010

The Cuba I Saw

http://www.americanthinker.com/

March 14, 2010
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The Cuba I Saw

By Megan Smith
http://www.americanthinker.com/

Interested in seeing Barack Obama's dreams for the U.S. in real time? Pack some toilet paper, Tylenol, and towels. Then hop a plane to Cuba. Just ninety miles off Florida's coast, Obama's ideas are alive and kicking.


In fact, visiting Cuba today may be more meaningful than ever before. Touring the country of 11 million lets you see everything the far left "knows" is right, just, and good for all of us.



Step out at Havana's José Martí airport to throngs of Cubans. The people -- warm and welcoming -- meet friends and relatives at the airport. Hundreds wait for arrivals. Though the government boasts 3.4% unemployment, judging by airport greeters and others hanging around town, those stats are questionable.

Cuba has two currencies: the CUCs (Cuban Convertible Pesos, pronounced "kooks"), which buy the good stuff, and the Cuban peso: fairly worthless. Cubans are paid in pesos. Twenty-five pesos equal one CUC. It's nearly impossible to earn enough pesos to purchase the number of CUCs needed to buy better items. So Cuba's black market is thriving.

Billboards featuring Fidel and his murderous pal Che Guevara are everywhere.


"Vive la Revolución" and "Siempre la Revolución" signs abound, too. Never mind that the Revolution happened 51 years ago, or that Cuba's been trapped in a time warp and state of decay ever since. The Revolution was Castro's finest moment. And he will never let you forget it. There are no promos for anyone else...except Hugo Chávez. Advertising private enterprise is banned.

Cuba has a centralized government. People vote for municipal officials (neighborhood folks) every two and a half years to represent them in Congress. The Castros are never on a ballot. And, in the Obama spirit, Castro's ideas reign supreme regardless of needs or opinions.

In 1997, Fidel, born Catholic, allowed Pope John Paul into Cuba. Touched by his visit, the dictator rewrote the Constitution, reinstating religion. Lucky Castro rediscovered his roots; if not, no one could practice religion today. Cuba is all about Castro all the time.


Cuba is an antique car-collector's dream...except that Cubans aren't collecting 1940s and 1950s vehicles -- they're driving them. New cars? A few. But generally, oldies must do. Licenses? Interesting. Socialists say everyone's the same. So why link someone's status to license color? Brown plates, for example, signal a government VIP, blue an inspector-controlled vehicle.

Here's something on Obama's wish list: the civilian security system. In Cuba, it's called the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution, or the CDR. Billed initially as an extra security force, "a collective system of revolutionary vigilance," it puts at least one government spy in the neighborhood. And those spies monitor everything. Even an extra bag of groceries is suspect.
Obama's mandatory national service? Alive and well in Cuba. Eighteen-year-olds complete military or social service. (Many believe that this is additional indoctrination.) Those not attending higher education serve two years, while the rest serve only one. In this communal "utopia," there's plenty of discrimination.

Of course, there's free health care, which Cubans (and Michael Moore) are programmed to hype to Americans. They tell you that Fidel brought universal health care. Sounds terrific, right? All services free? Docs earning 250 pesos a month, yet working nonstop? What could be better?

Well...remember that Tylenol? It's a donation to Cuba. Cuba's health care has "minor" glitches like no medicines. There aren't over-the-counter or prescription drugs, vitamins, or supplies like diabetic strips. There's inferior training, doctor shortages, rationed care, and a lack of equipment. (A few years ago, Havana -- a city of 2 ½ million -- had only one MRI machine.) The hospitals are in terrible shape, and the system is economically draining. Actually, some with money might get better care, but they pay under the table.

Cuba boasts the ultimate jobs bill: Everyone's guaranteed work. Of course, it's government employment -- there is almost nothing else. Jobs pay about $250 a month, which won't cover basics. (Many Cubans rely on remittances from U.S. relations to survive.) There's no incentive, nothing really works -- try the toilets -- and innovation is squashed. The government dictates hours...they're long. A taxi driver I met works from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. most days but still can't make ends meet.
Fired for wrongdoing or company politics? It's over. No severance, no recommendation, and probably not another job. But hey, who's complaining? It's socialism and it's fair, even when it's not.

Government entitlements are plentiful, however. Each person, employed or not, gets the same "benefits," including that fabulous health coverage and a monthly ration book for food and more. Of course, nothing is sufficient, so everyone is deprived. But with handouts galore, many stay unemployed.

Cuba got a shot of financial reality when Russia stopped footing its bills in the '90s. Suddenly, to quote Margaret Thatcher, they'd "run out of other people's money." Castro added a tiny private sector, turning Cuba socialist instead of communist. Today, Cuba's entrepreneurs are artisans, in-home restaurateurs, and small shop owners. They are heavily taxed and highly regulated, but it's an improvement.

Of course, Cuba bans freedom of speech and the press, something Obama, Axelrod, Pelosi, Reid, and Durbin would celebrate. In fact, speak against the government and disappear: effective. Dissent is outlawed. (Obama and Pelosi, eat your hearts out.)

Obama would rejoice because Fox News is not in Cuba. In fact, only snippets from an Obama favorite -- CNN -- are aired for tourists. Cubans access five state-controlled channels -- everything is censored.
And the internet is controlled. (Obama wants this, too?) The higher-ups get some online privileges; others don't.
Remember the towels? They are giveaways, too. Towels are in short supply. And the toilet paper? Don't ask. Here's a famous Cuban saying: When there's a toilet paper shortage, you know the socialists are coming.
But what Cubans lack in towels and toilet paper, they have in Castro's long speeches. Before his illness, Castro often spoke incoherently for eight to twelve hours to crowds of 50,000. Luckily, he, like Obama and Axelrod, understood astroturfing. Castro "hired" audiences, paying them in food, money, jobs, and more to show up and cheer.
Washington will be pleased to know that there are few overweight Cubans. (No financial drain there.) Of course, it's because they lack food. (Only the elderly, sick, and kids under seven are allowed milk.)

Housing? When Fidel "spread the wealth" in the '50s and '60s, he seized vacated homes of the rich, who fled. In his uncorrupt and crony-less way, his friends were given good homes. Most others shared tight quarters (2,000-ish square feet) with about twelve more people. Same today, but buildings are crumbling. There's peeling paint, broken windows, and cracked doors everywhere. No money for repairs. But who's complaining? Housing is free!

It's almost impossible for Cubans to travel inside or outside their country. The government won't let them. It's easy to see why people risk their lives to escape to U.S. shores. Cuba is the world's largest prison.

So if Barack Obama and his DNC succeed in making their dreams for the United States a reality, here's some advice: Head to the grocery and stack up on toilet paper. Then hang on real tight -- it's going to be one rough ride

March 15, 2010

Articles


Pelosi and Marx on 'Freedom'

Ed Kaitz

Nancy Pelosi wants to give birth to a new kind of freedom in America -- the freedom from being "job-locked." She's not exactly the first to push the concept. More



No Taxation with Misrepresentation?

Rosslyn Smith

If Congress passes a takeover of health care via dubious means, flaunting the consent of the governed, the consequences may be far more profound than dreamed by Reid, Pelosi, and Obama. More



What I Will Do If ObamaCare Passes

Harold Witkov

My top four "Plan B" safety-valve ideas if ObamaCare passes. More



Class Conflict in Obama's America

Steve Bartin

Marxists have long stated that class conflict exists between workers and the owners of capital. Today's biggest class conflict is between privileged government workers and the citizens they purportedly serve. More



The Attack on Netanyahu

Leo Rennert

As if Mideast diplomacy doesn't face enough hurdles, Obama has made things worse by orchestrating fierce attacks by Vice President Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton against Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. More



International Condemnation of Israel - So What's New?

C. Hart

The U.S., once again, is overplaying its hand. More



Obama the Entrepreneurship Expert

Monty Pelerin

We have a president who believes that he is always the smartest man in the room, no matter what room. More










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