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• The Haunting

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  As Humberto mentioned in the preceding post, artist Geandy Pavón, who has become a nemesis to Castro operatives all over the world, struck again in New York city. Like a ghost that relentlessly haunts those responsible for their tragic death, the image of the Cuban hero and martyr Orlando [...]

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• June 6, 1944

  

  Sixty six years ago today...

  You are about to embark upon The Great Crusade...

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• Silvio Rodriguez plays sold-out Concert at Carnegie Hall (el Bloqueo sigue del carajo!)

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  Castro's court musician/eunuch, Silvio Rodriguez, just played a sold-out concert in Carnegie Hall.

  Fascinating Rock Trivia: In '69 Cuba's Stalinist regime asked this popular Cuban folk-rock singer to help "build a bridge" between itself and Cuba's "hippies." The repression a [...]

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• NBC Partners with Castro’s DGI–AGAIN!

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  Some backdrop: at one point in 1961 Castro’s jails and forced labor camps held the highest number of political prisoners (per capita) on earth—higher than Stalin’s own during the Great Terror. Castro and Che’s firing squads were also murdering hundreds of Cuban patriots per week.

  “Of course I knew the [...]

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• The Fruits of Dialogue

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  After talks between the Catholic Church in Cuba and the island's dictator yielded a concession of sorts by the regime, there were some folks who were heralding the simple movement of prisoners of conscience from one stinking, dreadful prison to another stinking, dreadful prison as a sign of better things [...]

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• “Those troublesome Jews”

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  Charles Krauthammer nails it in "Those troublesome Jews."

  In World War II, with full international legality, the United States blockaded Germany and Japan. And during the October 1962 missile crisis, we blockaded ("quarantined") Cuba. Arms-bearing Russian ships headed to Cuba turned back because the Soviets knew that the U.S. Navy [...]

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• When fifo talks, nobody listens

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  The communist "Penthouse Forum" letter of the day:

  [f]idel [c]astro speculated Wednesday that a nuclear strike on Iran might help President Barack Obama win a second term in the White House and also suggested the United States could attack North Korea.

  The former leader of Cuba, who has not been seen [...]

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• June 4, 1942

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  As a long time student of Word War II some battles and events have fascinated me more than others. Among these are, of course, the Normandy invasion on D-Day, the air war over Europe, the Bulge, Patton's amazing campaign to the Rhine, the end of the Japanese war machine after [...]

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• Romanticizing Misery

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  In the blog section of the New York Times, Adriana Teresa features the work of a Cuban-born photographer, Raul Cañibano Ercilla. His black and white images capture--whether intended or not--the misery of life on an island prison where a brutal and surreal existence has flourished for more than five [...]

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• Commie bastard who disrupted the LA march for Las Damas outed

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  During the Hunger for Change March in Los Angeles earlier this year, while actor Andy Garcia was speaking on behalf of the political prisoners, the event was interrupted by a bull horn wielding che loving communist come mierda blasting pro-castro, pro-che revolutionary slogans from a  hillside just across the street. This che loving scumbag [...]

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