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• 94 per cent of Cuba’s Jews fled Castro’s Revolution

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  The Russian Czarist regime that sponsored hundreds of pogroms and published and disseminated the Protocols of the Elders of Zion provoked the exodus of about 25 per cent of Russia's Jews.

  Now from today's Jerusalem Post:

  "About 94" [...]

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• You, Princess, No. Not You.

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  By Yoani Sanchez:

  You, Princess, No. Not You.

  You come out of this filth of the starving …
  Joan Manuel Serrat, from his song “Princess”

  She was raised to succeed. As a little girl, her mother took the fried egg of her own plate, [...]

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• And here I thought it had to do with human rights and freedom…

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  All these years I thought the lifting of the embargo against the Castro dictatorship could only come if the Cuban regime began to respect human rights and took concrete and irreversible steps to allow the Cuban people to live in a free and democratic society. [...]

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• To the fallen…

  
  
  

  Ronald Reagan delivers his remarks at a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, May 26, 1986.

  Today is the day we put aside to remember fallen heroes and to pray that no heroes will ever have to die for us again. It's' [...]

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• Cuba’s Young Guns: 80 is the new 40 — Part 2

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  Listening to the media and the "Cuba Experts," you learn that Cuba is undergoing monumental and transformational reforms brought about by an injection of youthful and vibrant octogenarian blood. Leading this band of Cuban Young Guns is the verduous Raul Castro, who will join the [...]

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• Marco Rubio: “You cannot do anything without God”

  
  
  

  Marco Rubio’s Commencement Address to Ave Maria Law School

  The Marco Shark swimming without a teleprompter.

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• Guillermo Fariñas: Cubans must take back the public squares

  
  
  

  Via Martí Noticias (my translation):

  Fariñas proposes the taking back of public squares

  The 2010 Sakharov prize winner for liberty of conscience, the Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas, affirmed that the moment has arrived for the opposition to take back the public squares because [...]

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• What price, Freedom?

  
  
  

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• I Owed You All These Images

  
  
  

  By Luis Felipe Rojas:

  I Owed You All These Images

  I owed all my readers these images from the post “The Lie of Lies”.  They are direct accusations against a regime which employs men that are capable of carrying out orders that include beating innocent people — [...]

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• Cuba: Another story of oppression as told by the oppressed

  
  
  

  Pedazos de la Isla has a story of just one more instance of brutal oppression by the Castro dictatorship as told by the oppressed Cuban opposition:

  Three Dissidents from Placetas Narrate the Violence which Occurred Against Them and Yris Perez Aguilera

  In the island [...]

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